What You Never Knew About "The Room"

When I was younger the movie kinda scared me. Looking back, it was probably the poster. Yeah, it was definitely the poster. 

* "The Room" was directed, produced, written, and starred (gasp!) Tommy Wiseau.

* The film was made on a budget of 6 million dollars. Tommy made this possible by importing leather jackets to Korea.

* While most filmmakers just rent their cameras, Wiseau made the mistake wise business decision to buy not one, but two cameras, and shot the movie in both 35 mm film and high-definition video formats.

* "Room" franchise started life in 2001 as a play. It was then turned into an unpublished, 500-page book, and was finally adapted into the lovably bizarre (or as The Nostalgia Critic eloquently said, "dick sauce") movie we all know in 2003.

                           Earlier versions of the Mark and Pizza scene. Yep, still as awkward as ever.


* A billboard in Hollywood was one of the only means of advertising for the movie. It stayed up there for five years.

* Juliette Danielle, the lovely actress who portrays Lisa, was originally going to play Michelle (better known as the proud girlfriend of that "Me Underwear"guy). She filled in after several Lisas stepped down or were fired.

* As if Room wasn't weird enough, there was actually a scraped subplot where Johnny was a vampire who had a flying car. I have no comment.

* 6,000,000 dollars is apparently not enough to afford copyright to the words "fiancee" or "fiance". Tommy and Lisa are simply referred to as "future husband" and "future wife" throughout the film.

* It took over 30 takes to film the famous "Oh hi, Mark" scene.

                                                                     NAILED IT.

* Photos depicting the controversial yet beautiful...... spoon, can be seen in the background in some scenes. This caused throwing plastics spoons in the air to be quite a popular occurrence during midnight screening of the movie.

The Room is a film about a wealthy banker Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) and his finac- ahem, future wife Lisa (Juliette Daniel) being caught it a love triangle with his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero). It is considered by many to be the worst film ever made. It also happens to be one of my favorites.